Tuesday, January 23rd - belated Happy Birthday to Lloyd

Yesterday was Lloyd's birthday. Not much of a celebration this year. Sleep after working on Sunday night then supper before heading off to bed once again. I did try to make him a special supper but it's difficult as he's dieting right now. The good news is he lost weight this past week so he's feeling pretty good about that.

All in all it was a pretty quiet week. I worked at cards two days this week but I also had time to attend a new craft class. It seems I'm finally a senior citizen. Our class is part of the LEAP program which stands for Learning Elders Arts Program. This time around we're learning needle felting. I had no idea what it was until I looked it up online. It will be interesting to see what we produce over the  next 8 weeks.

We finally got some snow this week - enough to actually make use of. Sunday was a beautiful day. We started out with breakfast with the VanGaals and Bairds and then we reconvened to go snowshoeing. Meghan joined us and we actually talked Lloyd into going out as well. He got snowshoes for his birthday last year  but has yet to try them out. In fact when we pulled them out of the shed, they still had all the tags on them. 

Once we reached our destination, the river, after going through the woods, his only comment was "why didn't anyone tell me about this before?"  Needless to say his first foray out into the snow was a success.  It was a beautiful day to be outdoors and in the woods!

Unfortunately we may get rain later this week and it could all be gone, again. Fingers crossed it returns soon.

Congrats to James. He participated in a Biathlon event on the weekend and came first in his division, hitting all his targets and skiing really well. No photos yet but I'm sure there will be some coming soon.